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Textiles and Seals. Relations between textile production and seals and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece

2017/26/D/HS3/00145

Keywords:

Bronze Age Greece Aegean Archaeology Minoans Mycenaeans textile technology seals and sealing practices glyptic craft organization administration iconography of textiles and textile craft Aegean scripts

Descriptors:

  • HS3_8: Archaeology (incl. archaeology of Greece and Rome, archaeology of Egypt and Nubia, archaeology of Near East, archeology of the New World, pre- and protohistorical archaeology, archaeology of early medieval period, medieval archeology, archeology of modern period)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Archeologii

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Agata Ulanowska 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: SONATA 13 - announced on 2017-06-14

Amount awarded: 637 052 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-06-04

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2022-04-03

Project duration:: 46 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Project description

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Note - project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Komputer przenośny (ultrabook) z podstawowym oprogramowaniem (4 919 PLN)
  2. Program graficzny (300 PLN)
  3. Mikroskop cyfrowy (z oprogramowaniem i podstawką) (3 300 PLN)
  4. Aparat fotograficzny lustrzanka cyfrowa z dodatkowym obiektywem makro (6 800 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (9)
  1. Tekstylia i pieczęcie. O relacjach pomiędzy produkcją włókienniczą a praktykami stemplowania w Grecji epoki brązu oraz o zupełnie nowych danych z odcisków glinianych pieczęci
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Academic press:
    Przegląd Archeologiczny (rok: 2021, tom: 69, strony: 111-135), Wydawca: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
  2. Textiles and Seals: Recognising the relationship between textile production and seals, and sealing practices in Bronze Age Greece
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Academic press:
    Revue de l'Archéologie du Vêtement et du Costume (rok: 2020, tom: 1, strony: 45316), Wydawca: ÉDITIONS MÉDUSE D'OR
    Status:
    Published
  3. A chaîne opératoire as a cognitive framework for investigating prehistoric textile production: Production of clay textile tools in Middle Bronze Age Crete as a 'troublesome' case study
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Academic press:
    Archaeological Review from Cambridge (rok: 2020, tom: 35,1, strony: 212-226), Wydawca: Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.17863/CAM.65454 - link to the publication
  1. Investigating Relations between Textile Production and Seals and Sealing Practices in Bronze Age Greece: A Presentation of the New Textile and Seals" Project Database
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Book:
    Ancient Textile Production from an Interdisciplinary Approach: Humanities and Natural Sciences Interwoven for our Understanding of Textiles (rok: 2022, tom: brak, strony: 295-317), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
  2. The Materiality of the Cretan Hieroglyphic Script: Textile production-related referents to hieroglyphic signs on seals and sealings from Middle Bronze Age Crete
    Authors:
    Marie-Louise Nosch & Agata Ulanowska
    Book:
    The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices (rok: 2021, tom: 2, strony: 73-100), Wydawca: Oxbow Books
    Status:
    Published
  3. Towards engendering textile production in Middle Bronze Age Crete
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Book:
    Textiles and Gender in Antiquity from the Orient to the Mediterranean (rok: 2020, tom: brak, strony: 59-79), Wydawca: Bloosmbury Publishing
    Status:
    Published
  4. Why not wool? Evidence for raw materials and technical uses of textiles based on imprints on the undersides of clay sealings from Bronze Age Greece
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Book:
    THEFBO: the significance of archaeological textiles (rok: 2022, ), Wydawca: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  5. Sheep – 'a Factory without Waste'. Comparative, Interdisciplinary and Diachronic Views on Sheep in the Aegean Bronze Age
    Authors:
    Marie-Louise Nosch, Agata Ulanowska, Katarzyna Żebrowska, Kinga Bigoraj & Anna Gręzak
    Book:
    ZOIA. Animal-Human Interactions in the Aegean Middle and Late Bronze Age (rok: 2021, tom: 45, strony: 35-49), Wydawca: Peeters
    Status:
    Published
  6. Textile production in Aegean glyptic. Interpreting small-scale representations on seals and sealings from Bronze Age Greece
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Book:
    Textiles in Ancient Mediterranean Iconography (rok: 2022, tom: ATS 38, strony: 19-40), Wydawca: Oxbow Books
    Status:
    Published
  7. Textile Uses in Administrative Practices in Bronze Age Greece: New Evidence of Textile Impressions from the Undersides of Clay Sealings
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Book:
    PURPUREAE VESTES VII. Textiles and Dyes in Antiquity. Redefining Ancient Textile Handcraft. Structures, Tools and Production Processes (rok: 2020, tom: VII, strony: 413-424), Wydawca: University of Granada
    Status:
    Published
  8. Textiles and Seals: On Use of Seals with Textile Motifs in Bronze Age Greece
    Authors:
    Katarzyna Żebrowska
    Book:
    PURPUREAE VESTES VII. Textiles and Dyes in Antiquity. Redefining Ancient Textile Handcraft. Structures, Tools and Production Processes (rok: 2020, tom: VII, strony: 425-430), Wydawca: University of Granada
    Status:
    Published
  9. Stamped, incised, inscribed – some remarks on notation practices on textile tools from Bronze Age Greece
    Authors:
    Agata Ulanowska
    Book:
    Meaningful practices. Non Scribal Communication in the Aegean and the Near East during the Bronze Age , Wydawca: Periploi. Studi egei e ciprioti, Firenze University Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication